Bloggers Quilt Festival

"Matthew's Quilt" was started back around 1986. I was a new quilter and had taken a quilting class at the local craft store. Back then we were taught how to cut out the pieces with scissors and used cardboard templates. Towards the end of the class, our teacher showed us a tool that looked like a pizza cutter. She told us this was a Rotary Cutter and would speed cutting time. Of course we all laughed and said it could not take the place of scissors! HA!

About that same time, my sister in law took a class at a quilt shop. She learned Eleanor Burns Quilt in A Day pattern for the Log Cabin. She quickly shared with me how quick and easy it was to use this method. And as the saying goes, the rest is history.

I purchased these 100% cotton fabrics at the quilt shop. My plan was to make a quilt for my then toddler son. We worked on the Log Cabin pattern, and I completed the top. It was my goal to hand quilt this quilt.

So I started working on it, but did not make very speedy progress. As a matter of fact it was not completed until 2004!

This is one of my favorite quilts. It was fun to work on, and I love how the colors all worked together. I am very honored to have this quilt listed in the Online Quilt Museum. It is under the Cabin Fever category.

Enjoy your walk through the Bloggers Quilt Festival! I am sure we will all be amazed at the incredibly creative and gorgeous quilts that are being shown this time.

What a gorgeous quilt... I really like the colours and how the quilting enhances the log-cabin blocks, How lovely!I took my first class in 1994 and our teacher then told us rotary cutters would never catch on! :)Thank you for your visit!:)greetings from Cyprus,valentina

Your quilt is gorgeous and so beautifully pieced, thank you for letting us see it. At airport security recently I had to explain a rotary cutter that was in my hold luggage - oh, like a pizza cutter - said the official! Sort of! Lis x

I love the fields and furrows layout for log cabin quilts. This is just beautiful and I love the fact that it is hand quilted - and a beautiful job of hand quilting you did. Isn't it amazing how far quiting has come in that we now have so many gadgets to make the blocks more uniform? The blocks come together so much more quickly and painlessly than when we were using scissors and templates to cut out the pieces.

we learned the same method at the class I attended in 1993 - how strange life would be nowadays without my rotary cutter! and with cardboard templates! :-)lovely quilt, I always loved Log Cabin quilts.Kristinawww.priscillacraft.blogspot.com

Thank you for telling us about your red white and blue log cabin. I am so glad you were able to complete it with the hand quilting. Your story about the rotary cutter is so familiar! I had some rickety old steel rotary blade in my paint box in the year 1985/86 and I used it to cut canvases for painting class! I took my quilting class at the university in the spring of 1986 and we cut everything with a scissors! I don't think I had a yellow olfa cutter until about 1990!

I love a log cabin quilt, and Eleanor's methods are so quick! However, I don't think she concentrates enough on the quilting part of her designs, so I admire your decision to hand quilt such a large project. What a great story--thank you for sharing :)

What a great story- You know, my first quilt was that same quilt pattern from Eleanor Burns- I did it in a barn raising setting ( sometimes called Sunshine and shadow). I started in 1985 and finished in 1987- not quite a quilt in a day.LOL Unfortunately my version has not survived very well but I learned lots since that time. I did not quilt for about 10 years after that.Log cabin still remains one of my favorite patterns.Hope you have lots of visitors. There are lots of beautiful quilts to view ( getting close to 500) Regards from a Western Canadian Quilter,Annahttp://quiltmomsjourney.blogspot.com/

A very classic and pretty quilt. Some quilts takes us a long time to finish, loved to read the story! And there has been so much happening when it comes to tools. Imagine making a quilt without the rotary cutter these days...; )

What a beautiful quilt you have made! Log Cabin is one of my most favorite patterns and I especially LOVE it with a red center square! Your quilt, though it may have taken years to complete, IS finished!!! And, it has quite a bit of quilting history and legacy stitched into it. What an AWESOME job you've done! Thanks for sharing. ; )

I used scissors for my first quilt too, which also happened to be a log cabin, but it is not nearly so beautiful and well made as yours. It really deserves being in the online quilt museum. Thank you for sharing.

What a beautiful quilt! I love how the white creates a cool pattern with this. I also love hearing your story about how you first discovered the rotary cutter. Aren't they wonderful now? So much better than using templates or a scissors to cut pieces for quilt projects.

I am very impressed you quilted it by hand. Where I am from not many people know how to do that. I learned from my grandma and the last one I did by hand took me almost a year to do (and it was a small quilt) but I love the way it turned out. Yeah for the hand quilters!!!

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